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Avocados: Food to help Lower Blood Pressure Naturally

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Avocados- food to lower your blood pressure.

Avocados, are a wonderful food.

They are great tasting in addition to being a superb method to lower your high blood pressure and cholesterol. Finding natural ways to lower your high blood pressure is essential.

Prescription blood pressure medication is expensive and rife with unwanted side effects. The side effects can actually be so awful they seem worse than the problem. Fortunately there are many natural cures out there that will help you relieve hypertension naturally.

A good one, and one of the most common are avocados.

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How do Avocados lower high blood pressure?

Avocados contain a monounsaturated fat that is called oleic acid. It has been well documented that oleic acid assists in lowering cholesterol. In a study where participants had daily diet that included Avocados, the participants showed a lowering of LDL (bad cholesterol) by 10% and a 11% rise in HDL (good cholesterol) and that was for only one weeks time! They are also absolutely chock full of potassium. Potassium is known to be one of the key ingredients in lowering blood pressure and keeping a healthy circulatory system. If that were not enough, avocados have a large amount of Folates, a nutrient that increases heart health and assists in decreasing blood pressure naturally

Hypertension Tip:

An Avocado a day keeps the Doctor away

Avocados great for salads and can be used for many dishes for natural Hypertension relief.

Avocado and Salad- a Natural way to decrease your blood pressureThey have been shown to increase the absorption of Carotenoids from salads. So if you throw in some avocados and you can actually make the greens in your salads better! So, to have a truly heart healthy diet, mix in a lot of avocados into your food.
Just one word of advice, avocados are very healthy to be sure, but they do also have a lot of calories. If you have a heart condition it is good to have some regardless, but since they do have a lot of calories, you may want to slightly decrease your intake if you are on a "diet"

Any southwestern dish tastes great with avocados: Chicken Fajitas, chicken tacos, bean burritos et. al.
They make a great appetizer: Mix it in with any salad for a healthy kick. (remember avocados have Carotenoids, that increase good nutrient absorption from your salad.)

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A few Ideas for healthy Avocado foods

Any southwestern dish tastes great with avocados: Chicken Fajitas, chicken tacos, bean burritos et. al.

They make a great appetizer: Mix it in with any salad for a healthy kick. (remember avocados have Carotenoids, that increase good nutrient absorption from your salad.)

Here are a few of my favorites:

-Grilled Marinated Swordfish with Avocado
-California Roll
-Guacamole Chicken Salad
-Chicken Monetary
-Cheese Scallion and Avocado Enchilada

You can even mix Avocados in your eggs in the morning. Thinking of all these dishes is making me hungry. So enough with that, you get the idea.

Natural cures for high blood pressure

Avocados are just one of many natural remedies for lowering blood pressure. Click Here!! for a guide to the best way to decrease your blood pressure, using natural remedies, foods and methods. Hypertension is known as the a "Silent Killer". If you have risk factors for, or have, hypertension you need to be taking steps to fix it. Although medication is an option the side effects can be nearly worse than the disease in many situations. Be sure to try the natural remedies.

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  • checkyourvibe May 20, 2012 @ 12:07 am | delete
    Great lens! Another way to have avacado is to put it in a smoothie. I have 1 avacado, 1 beet, 1/2 orange, 1 apple, and 1 lemon- in the vitamix, with 2c distilled water. Believe it or not, it is ok tasting! Also, if you hit the avacado seed with a hammer to break it up, it can also go in the smoothie- the vitamix will not blend it, though, unless you break it up a little first. The seed is amazingly beneficial!
  • Momsbusy247 May 19, 2012 @ 6:17 pm | delete
    I learned something new today. I didn't know about that avocado can help lower blood pressure.
  • Funny_Beekeeper Mar 9, 2012 @ 2:21 pm | delete
    At least once in a week I make myself an avocado cream spread with few drops of lemon and some spices. It's great for a breakfast, maybe you should try it?
    Otherwise I like your lens very much and it deserves a big Squidlike from me ;)
  • GypsyWhim Mar 2, 2012 @ 7:47 pm | delete
    My "honey" is Mexican and let me tell ya, the way they use avocado is so much better than the crap avocado I used to serve back in my days of waitressing. He uses the avocado as a salsa for his tortilla chips (as well as for all of the other Southwestern dishes you mentioned). Simply mix the avocado with tomato, jalapeno peppers, salt, lemon pepper, onion, and garlic (or whatever spices you prefer). The added ingredients will take that avocado flavor from bland to "happening" in a moment flat. Also, remember, a ripe avocado's SKIN is a darker green/blackish color, NOT the brighter green color. It should not be too firm when you squeeze it, but rather somewhat soft (but not TOO soft or TOO black -- then it will be overly ripe). Happy tasting, Squidoos!!!
  • bestbloodpressuremonitors Jan 29, 2012 @ 9:50 am | delete
    Try drinking a glass of Tomato juice a day. It is supposed to help lower high blood pressure.
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